"I didn’t mean it like that, I was just asking..." Annabelle’s voice became barely audible by the end.
Young Master paused for a moment before sighing deeply.
"I wasn’t planning on telling you this. But since you asked, I’ll tell you the truth. The anesthesia needle that you took for him, it likely had poison in it. The toxins are still in your body, and physical intimacy will speed up your blood flow, allowing the poison to spread more quickly through your organs."
He hadn’t intended to tell her about the poison, afraid it would lead her to suspect something about him. But to prevent her from having any further physical contact with Kendrick, he told her the lie that intimacy would worsen her condition.
Now that he had reclaimed the Whitney family’s business, his position was still un
